# Founder · Ravi Pratap Singh · Onto
> Ravi Pratap Singh is the founder and CEO of Onto, the compatibility layer for the agent web. Building from India.

**Source:** /about-founder
**Extracted:** 2026-05-20T20:59:17.540Z

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// Founder

![Ravi Pratap Singh, founder and CEO of Onto](/_next/image?url=%2Ffounder.jpg&w=1080&q=75)

## Ravi Pratap Singh

Founder & CEO, OntoIndia

Ravi Pratap Singh is the founder and CEO of Onto, the compatibility layer for the agent web. He is a 20-year-old computer science undergraduate at HBTU Kanpur, building from India. Before Onto, he co-founded [Open Dev Society](https://github.com/open-dev-society), an open source community that crossed 11,200 GitHub stars across projects, with [OpenStock](https://github.com/open-dev-society/OpenStock) hitting GitHub Trending globally and reaching 10,500+ users. He was selected for the Harvard-affiliated [Aspire Leaders Program](https://aspireleaders.org/) in the top 2% of global applicants.

11,200+GitHub stars · open source

10,500+OpenStock users

Top 2%Aspire Leaders applicants

6Onto production surfaces

// Founding story

### Why Onto exists.

I built Onto because I watched an AI agent confidently misquote my own work back to me.

I was experimenting with AI agents reading websites and kept noticing the same failure — agents would return wrong pricing, hallucinated features, fabricated facts, all attributed to brands as if the AI had read them directly. I assumed the model was the problem. Then I checked what the agent was actually receiving from a website I knew well. It was 800 KB of Tailwind classes, JavaScript bundles, and layout divs, with about 8 KB of real content buried inside.

The model wasn't failing. The web was. Every website on the internet was built for human eyes, and AI agents were now reading them anyway, parsing 99% noise to find 1% signal. The format was the bottleneck. Nobody had built infrastructure to fix it at the protocol layer.

So I started building. Ten weeks later, Onto's first three production surfaces — Read API, SDK, and MCP server — were live across six domains, with the MCP server listed in [Anthropic's official directory](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/). The compatibility layer for the agent web isn't theoretical anymore. It's the system every Claude Code, Cursor, and AI agent developer can use right now.

The moment that triggered Onto wasn't a vision of the future. It was an AI confidently lying about something I had built. I traced the lie back to the format. The rest is what I'm building now.

// Track record

### Past and present.

01

Founder & CEO, OntoThe compatibility layer for the agent web

2026 – present

02

Co-founder, Open Dev Society11,200+ GitHub stars across open source projects · OpenStock hit GitHub Trending globally

2024 – present

03

Founding Frontend Engineer, Deexen AI

2026

04

Harvard-affiliated Aspire Leaders ProgramSelected · top 2% of global applicants

2024

05

Community Leader, Aspire Leaders alumni network — Kanpur150+ members

2024 – present

06

JEE Mains97.2 percentile · top 3% nationally

2023

07

YC Startup School India, BangaloreAttendee · speaker

April 2026

// Selected writing

### From the public archive.

Three posts that mattered along the way to shipping Onto — the ones people kept asking me to share. Scroll the row, or open each on LinkedIn.

3 postsscroll →

01 / 03[View on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7440360215696318464)

02 / 03[View on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7439862607592804352)

03 / 03[View on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7462239601630289920)

// Reach out

### Two ways in.

[founder@buildonto.dev](mailto:founder@buildonto.dev)[linkedin.com/in/ravixalgorithm](https://linkedin.com/in/ravixalgorithm)

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